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UNICEF and Millicom want to make the web safer for kids

UNICEF and emerging markets telecoms giant Millicom have signed an agreement aimed at making the web a safer place for children. The partnership will…

Microsoft adds Bitcoin as payment option for Xbox, Windows Phone stores

Microsoft users can now buy and download apps, games, movies, TV shows, and music at the Windows, Windows Phone, and Xbox Games, Video, and…

Amazon announces 4K streaming for Instant Video service

There is nothing worse than watching movies that appear as if they had been shot in the dark on a camcorder at the cinema…

Hackers demand Sony cancels movie about North Korean president

The group that claimed responsibility for the Sony Pictures Entertainment hack has demanded that the company cancel the release of The Interview, a comedy…

Thumbtom is an app that pays you to look at advertisements

Currently trending on South Africa’s Google Play store is Thumbtom — an app that pushes ads to your smartphone’s lockscreen in return for vouchers…

Microsoft ditching the name ‘Metro’ for something more commercial

Say what? Apparently Microsoft is about to ditch the name “Metro” for something more commercial reports The Next Web. It seems as the Redmond-based…

Facebook confirms that 83 million accounts could be fake

Um. Remember when Facebook said it had grown to 955-million users late last month? As it turns out, it could have around 872-million actual…

Investigative journalism gets the YouTube treatment

This is very interesting. The Centre for Investigative Reporting (CIR) has launched a YouTube channel in partnership with some of the biggest players in…

Google Wallet now supports more credit and debit cards on more phones

Unless you’ve somehow been avoiding its products, Google probably hosts your email, stores your documents, knows who you interact with (via Google+), customises your…

Olympic social media controversy hits China

When you embrace social media as much as the London Games have, you’ve got to accept that there’ll be the odd disaster here and…

Three more top Facebook execs leave

It was bound to happen. Three more top Facebook executives have left the massive social network. The latest employees to exit the company in…

Want to put your coding skills to good use? Here’s your chance

This is pretty damn cool. It’s a chance for digital activists, designers, developers and data journalists to use their tech skills for good. In…

SA airline wants you to ‘fly social’, offers free Facebook and Twitter

This is interesting. South African budget airline Mango is set to give passengers on its planes free access to Facebook and Twitter in-flight for…

Get your portrait drawn in the sand by a robot with this Google experiment

Ever wanted to take a photo with your webcam and get it sketched in sand by a robot at a museum in London? Well,…

Twitter to UK journo: sorry we ratted you out, but your suspension was valid

Twitter has issued a statement apologising for its suspension of UK journalist Guy Adams. Well sort of. The social network maintains that it followed…

Outlook.com hits 1m signups just hours after launch

Wow. Turns out people are really excited by Outlook.com. One-million people have already turned on the product that will ultimately kill hotmail just hours…

Mark Zuckerberg’s younger sister now part of the Google family

When you hear the name Zuckerberg, your brain tends to jump to the hoodied founder of Facebook. Here’s the thing though, there are, apparently…

Cape Town social tourism campaign hits 13 million impressions on Twitter

This is very cool. The city of Cape Town is currently hosting four international travel bloggers and their itineraries are being guided by Twitter….

Microsoft’s new Outlook: a home-grown hammer in Hotmail’s coffin

Hotmail’s been the wheezing old collie of the email world for a few years now: we all acknowledge that it doesn’t really serve any…

Twitter behind UK journo’s suspension over Olympic complaint [update]

US broadcaster NBC’s coverage of the Olympic Games has been controversial enough to cause a social uproar all of its own. Then UK journalist…

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